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New Ulm weekly review., 1887-08-24
A Startling Prediction.

Two hundred years ago in China
there was just such a craze about nat
ural gas as we have in this country
to-day. Gas wells were snnk with as
much vim and vigor as the celestials
were capable OF, but owing to q gas
explosion that killed several millions
OF people and tore up and destroyed a
large district OF country, leaving a
large inland sea, known on the maps
as Lake Foo Chang, the boring OF any
more gas wells was then and there pro.
hlbited by law. 1t seems, according
to the Chinese history, that many
large and heavy pressure gas wells
were sunk quite near to each other
Gas was lighted as soon as struck, as
IS done IN this country. 1t is stated
that one well with it's, unusual pres
sure, by induction or back draught
pulled down into the earth the burn.
ing gas OF a smaller well, resulting in a
dreadful explosion Of q large district,
destroying the inhabitants thereof.
Lake Fee Chang rests on this district
The same catastrophe is imminent IN
this country unless the laws restrict
further Developments in boring SO
many wells. Should g. similar explo
sion occur there will be such an up.
heaval as will dwarf the most terrible
earthquake ever known. The country
along the gas belt from Toledo through
Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky will be
ripped up to the depths OF /, 200 to
l,6OO feet and Topped over like a pan
cake, leaving q charm through which
the waters Of Lake Erie will come
bowling down, filling the Ohio and
Mississippi valleys, and blotting them
out forever Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette.
New Ulm weekly review., 1887-08-24
Elevated Railways of New York

New York Letter.
There are 80 miles OF double track
or 81 miles in all in the elevated rail.
way system OF New York. Every day
track-hands walk over it and another
set walk under it, craning their necks
as they look up any defect IN the line.
At 9th street the 9th avenue track
is at points more than go feet high.
and the inspectors above have dizzy
walk, while those on the surface crook
their necks out of shape in gazing uI
at-the trestle. The ride over this
high section of the line makes many
nervous persons very timid, but the
track is so securely guarded with
heavy guard timber that it would be
almost impossible for a train tc
leave the rails. In one or two in.
stances axles have broken, but nc
train has ever left the track. II 8
complete derailment should occurr al
10th street, and a train should fall
upon the rocks below, few passengers
would survive the accident. The sc
miles OF elevated roads on Manhattan
Island is divided into four lines. As
all roads were said to lead to Rome, sc
all L roads in New Y ork lead to South
Ferry, at the southern end of the island
There are confusing number o.
cross lines and branches which seem
to head almost anywhere, but plat.
form men with strong lungs and pa.
thence that knows no wearing out
stand at every junction and tel
people where to go. The sys
tenn carries daily half q million
passengers. To do this $500 trains
are run, 4, 500 employees kept busy.
$40 cars and 255 locomotives used.
5000 stops made each day by the
trains, and 18O different stations
passed. Each train, which consist O.
four or five coaches and looks as Ions
and large as passenger train on s
surface railroad. willr on the aver
age $50 persons, but during the busy
hours in the morning and evening they
are crowded to suffocation, and
train with 500 passengers aboard is nc
rarity. Your New York business man
is not a gallant when ladies come
aboard acrowded car, and itrarely oc
currs that q man arises and gives his
seat to a woman.
The trains run at an average speed
OF twelve miles an hour. Two express
trains that stop at few stations rur
down from Harlem to South Ferry in
the morning over the 9th avenue line.
the road on the westerly side OF the
city and two similar trains run up at
night.
New Ulm weekly review., 1887-08-24
Facts About Silver.

The richest silver mine in the world is
Potosi.
Total product OF silver il Nevada,
s352,ooO, 900.
Annual silver product OF North
America, S65, 100000
The yearly product of the mines oil
Africa is estimated to be $4,000.
Silver. as regards its mines is repre-.
ssented in every portion OF our planet.
Asia Including Australia, New. Zeal.
and and Oceanica) produces 81 $50.
900 a year.
The annual product ofthe silver
mines OF South America is estimated
S26, ,OOO, 900.
The exports ofsilver from the Uuited
States since l84S has amounted to
$451,746,77I
Silver mines Of Europe yield annual
" $4,000, 600, and their total prod.
suct has amounted to So, ,628, ,OOO, 900.
The highest silver deposit ia the
world is on King Solomon s mountain,
ln Colorado, 1900 feet above the
Pacific ocean.
The. largest nugget of silver yet OBJ.
tanned was dug up IN Arizona and
weighed 43 200 ounces, valued at th
same number OF dollars.
The silver mines of Mexico were
wrought long before Cortez revealed
to the eyes Of Europe in 1873. The
product per year at the present time
ds estimated TO be $50, ,O0o, ,oo0.
New Ulm weekly review., 1887-08-24
The Limit of Life.
From the Cosmopolitan.

From the Cosmopolitan.
It would appear in fact as though
five score years were the natural or
normal limit Of human life; and that
when men die many years before that
age is attained, the fault, apart from
malignant disease Or accident, has
lain with themselves. Underlying the
old proVerb, ssevery man is a fool or
a physician at forty, there is the I'M
portant truth that it !. is in every
mans power, il he is wise, to recognize
early in life (like Cornaro) the require
ments OF his own tconstitution, and
the means by which all such stores Of
vitality as it may possess may be
utilized. An able physician said to
me q short time ago. In AL my ex-
perience have never known but one
man who really died a natural DEATH,
and he went on to; explain that q
man can only be said to die q natural
death when he dies all at once, when
sthe.organs on which circulation, res
piration, and nutrition depend, all
fail at about the same time; whereas
one man dies because circulation fails.
another because the respiratory or
gans gave out, and yet another be-
cause stomach, liver, kidneys, or
bowels become UNEQUAL to their work.
Insfne, the secret of longevity lies in the
attainment Of natural life to be
brought to an end by a natural death;
and nearly every man, did he bnt i've
his vital powers fair chances, would
find that, like IS S 8.
The wonderful one hoes shay,
He was built in such logical way
las torun1 q hundred years to 4 day. IS
And then, OF q sudden Ito pass away.
New Ulm weekly review., 1887-08-24
This rs a Great Country.
From tho New York Telepra m

From tho New York Telegram.
John a. Craig, who passed north
through Albany recently on single
railroad ticket, bound for Water
bury, Vt, is reported to weigh eight
hundred and fourteen pounds ard
claims to be the latest man in
the world. That is seventy-fise
pounds more than the famous Daniel
Lambert weighed, who was the fattest
Englishman that ever lived. Lambert
died seventy y-eight years ago. His
coffin was six feet four inches long,
four feet four inches wide and two
feet four inches deep, and was made
square on account Of the size OF his
legs. Part OF the wall Of the room in
which he died was taken down to adj
nit It. It was inferred in st. Martins s
churchy ard in Stamford. Line colnshire,
by digging an inclined plane into the
grave and wheeling it down upon two
axletrees. 81 u
New Ulm weekly review., 1887-08-24
An Incident. That Happened to
aMember of the Fighting Four
70 II, 4fl r

Is ICentl.
''He was the bravest soldier in the
Fourteenth regimentp' exclaimed an
old veteran when asked bv q reporter
II he knew ''Shanty'' Mcclure. aKnow
him! rather guess So But shall
never forget the time when .Shanty'
thought he was wounded. We were
running side by side and the bullets
were whizzing thick around us. Sud-
denly 'Shanty exclaimed, I'm hit
and the blood is running down my leg
into the shoe. caught him by the
arm as he appeared to be in danger OF
falling, but he said that he guessed he
was able to get along and limped to a
clump OF bushes by the road side.
Let's see how bad I'm hurt
said he, loosening his clothing. A
examination of his body failed to re-
veal the wound, when suddenly we dis,
covered that his canteen had been
pierced by q bullet. and the water
which it contained had trickled down
his leg. The water was.so warm that
he had mistaken 1T for blood. Thor.
oughly disgusted he rearranged his
clothing, and with the adm onition.
not to make him the laughing stockof
the company by telling the story, he
seized his gun and started on again.
He was in many a battle after that,
but escaped with a whole skin and re-
turned to Brooklyn.
New Ulm weekly review., 1887-08-24
The Old ssHook-Up'' Behind .

From the San Francisco Examiner.
A local writer on fashion prsdicts a
return in women's dresses to the
fachion Of hooking behind. This limo.
cent is TRANQUILITY unaware that her
prophecy implies the profoundest
special and religious changes thing
short, in truth, of stupendous moral
and intellectual retrogression. The
present fashion Of fastening ladies'
dresses is lnseperably bound up with
that vast concatenation of thought
aud feeling which Protestants call the
Reformation and Catholics something
else. Among the chief results OF that
memorable movement was the liberty
OF woman to fashion her dress as she
pleased. Luther, with the intrepid.
ty which characterized his every
thought and act, centended that so
long as woman required somebody to
help her hook her dress she was not
Tree, and could not hope to attain to
the highest and ripest development OF
her mind and heart, Calvin fercely as
sailed this doctrine, holding that
dresses fastened before were forbidden
IN the word OF God, against public
morals. Melnethon, who was not a
man OF extremes, favored middle
course-just what it was cannot east
" be made OUT and was denounced
by one party as a coward, by the
other as hereto. 1t is only in our
own day that the Lutheran doctrine
IN this matter has won general assent,
and the women Whom God ever bless)
have all taken to wearing gowns Ike
old Crimes t'all buttoned be-
fore The effect upon public morals
am unable to determine.
New Ulm weekly review., 1887-08-24
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LETTER.
= ~ TT r. - : : :

W.J. Henderson, in New York Tribune.
Only an old-time letter;
But from each faded line
There breathes a tender passion
That once was only mine.
Only an old-time letter;
But from each yellow page
There comes d woe Of long ago
The ghost OF a sweeter age.
Only an old-time letter,
Dark with the stain OF years
But oft that withered writing
= Has bioomed beneath my tears,
But oh! that dream il shattered
The fount OF grief run dry;
To-day the sad remembrance
Wakes but passing sigh.
Yes, the page is old and yellow;
And the moss is On thy grave,
Where the pale moon nightly silvers
The shadows OF wind-blown wave
Where the long and silent river
Ends in the m oanlng sea,
AS thy sweet life is vanished
Into eternity.
New Ulm weekly review., 1887-08-24

am quite willing to Try & he says,
With eager sarcasm; and with the col.
OF flushing her sweet face she leans
towards him with o utstretch hands.
] cannot tell you any thing more, ex-
eept that, as they came iuto camp arm
IA arm, With q new light in their faces,
Hats boots received an especial bene.
iction;; Martha knocked over the cof-
fee-pot in aft Of bewil berment; Car up.
set Steenie in the exuberence OF his 10y;
while Tom, in an aside, asked What
will Uncle Ralph say?''
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-11-11
Want of Sleep

Is sending thousands annually to the
insane asylum and the doctors say this
trouble is alarmingly on the increase.
The usual remedies, while they may
give temporary relief, are likely to do
more harm than good. What is needed
is an Alternative and Blood-purifier
Ayers Sarsaparilla is incomparably
the best. 1t corrects those disturbances
in the circulation which cause sleepless-
ness, gives increased vitality, and re-
stores the nervous system to healthful
condition.
Rev. T. G. A. Cote, agent OF the Mass
Home Missionary Society, writes that
his stomach was out of order, his sleep
very often disturbed. and some i'm
purity of the blood manifest but that
a perfect cure was obtained by the use
OF Ayers Sarsaparilla.
Frederick w. Pratt, 424 Washington
street, Boston, writes: MY daughter
was Frustrated with nervous debility.
Ayers Sarsaparilla restored her to
health"
William F. Bowl1er, Erie, Pa, was
cured of nervousness and sleeplessness
by taking Ayers Sarsaparilla for about
two months, during which time his
weight increased over twenty pounds.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-11-11
SAVED BY THE DOGS,

s'Do you see that man leading those
st. Bernard dogs? Well, two years ago
he was one of the life saving station in
spectors, and while at station in the
performance of his duty he helped in the
work of assistance to wrecked vessel.
The schooner was about half mile of
shore, on a bar, and being rapidly broken
to pieces by the heavy seas. The boats
were washed away, and the crew could
be plainly seen signalling for assistance.
When the lifeboat was ready, the inspec-
tor insisted upon going with the crew.
He took his seat, and when the boat
reached the wreck he went down into the
cabin to see if there was any one below.
In the hurry and struggle the lfeboat
left the wreck with the crew and it was
not until they had landed that the alb
sence of the inspector was discovered.
at so happened that in landing the
lifeboat had been injured and would re-
Quire some time for repairs. 1t was win
ter, and they feared the inspector would
freeze or be drowned when the wreck
broke up. Meanwhile the man in the
wreck came on deck and found the boat had
left him. He was trying to devise some
means of getting to land when he heard
dog whining IN the forward part of the
wreck. At the risk of being washed
away he went forward and loosed those
two dogs YOU see following him now and
as he was signalled by the station people
to wait until the boat returned he got the
dogs back in the cabin and laid down
with them, and in that way prevented
being frozen to death. 1t took two hours
to fix the boat, and when he got ashore
the captain of the wrecked schooner made
him present of the dogs, that have fol-
lowed him ever since Sault Ste.
Marie Cor. Chicago News.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-11-11
STATE OF VERMONT
- District of Addison, SIS.

Be it remembered, that at session of the
Probate Court holden at Middlebury, within
and for said district on the 3lst day of October,
A. ID. 1887
Present: Hon. Lyman +. Knapp, Judge.
Whereas, II. ID. Maynard, administrator OF
the estate of Irene c. Dunckiee, late of Middle
bury in said district deceased, has this day pre-.
sented to said court his petition in writing,
setting forth, that it will be necessary to sell
a part of the real estate of said deceased, for
the payment of the debts and charges of adj.
ministration; and also that ii will be benef-
cial for all parties interested therein to sell
the whole of the real estate OF said deceased,
and therein making application to said court
for license to make such sale. And said adj.
ministrator, having produced to said court
the assent in writing OF all the heirs re.
siding in this State, interested in said real
estate, 1t is ordered, that all persons inter
terested in the estate OF said deceased, be no.
fed to appear before said court, at the pro-
bate office in Middlebury in said district on
the 2lst day of November, A. ID. 1ss7, at 10
o'clock a. m, by publication OF this order, three
weeks successfully previous thereto, in the
Middlebury Register, n newspaper printed at
Middebury aforesaid, to show cause, if any
they may have, why said license should not be
granted.
A LYMAN +. KNAPP, Judge.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-11-11
JOHN L. HAMMOND's Admrs. STATE OF VT
VS.. Addison Co.
CLARA l., SMITH ct nj. )ISCUANCERY


CLARA L. SMITH ct al. Is CHANCERY
Whereas, &. +. tush and I. NJ. Chapman, adj
ministrators OF the estate OF John l.. Ham
mond, late of Orwell, in said county, deceased,
have filed their petition in said court against
Caroline A. Smith of the county OF Lander
and State of Nevada, and Clara l.. smith OF
Whiting, in said county, setting forth that the
said Caroline A. Feby 25th, 1855, and the said
Clara l.. Sept. 30th, 1865, executed to Sally Aus
tins administrators mortgage deed OF two GER
tain pieces OF land situate i'll said Whiting,
being the same and all the lands decided to
Sally Austin's administrator by Sidney Smith
and Anthony o. smith of California, Aug. 18th,
1862 one of said lots contains about - acres
and is the home farm OF said Clara L., and
the other OF said lots OF land contains about
10 acres situate in the swamp in said Whiting
and is useh as wood lot III connection with
said home farm, with condition tor the re-
demptiOn OF the same on the payment OF GER
tain notes therein described. And that since
the execution OF said mortgage said John l..
Hammond purchased and became the owner
of said mortgage and the same is part of his
estate; and the said Caroline A. has since de-
ceased leaving surviving her rs heirs OF her
estate her husband, Benz Lehman OF san Blu
cnca Ventura, California, sarah /. Jones, wife
of Rufus Jones OF Black River Falls, Wiscon-
sin, Cornelia +. walker of Plankinton, Dako
Ia, Emeline A. Chandler of starksboro, Yer
mont Carrie A. Warner, wife OF Joseph y.
Warner OF Swanton, Vermont, sidney White
of Ferrisburgh, Vermont, Corneia II. Walker
and Sarah W. Jennison, wife of Wm Jenni-
son, all OF st. Adams, Vermont, and Henry
o. Walker oi Merrimack, New Hampshire.
And pray ing that the equity OF redemption OF
said Clara l.. and said heirs OF Caroline A. in
the premises may be toreclosed agreeably to
law.
said defendants Benjamin, Sarah F., Rufus,
Cornelia E., Emeline A, Carrie A, Joseph NJ,
Sidney S., Corneia III Sarah W., William and
Henry o. residing without this State so that
said petition cannot be served upon them, 1t
is ordered that they be required to appear on
the first day OF the next stated term OF said
court to be holden ut Middlebury, within and
tor the county of Addison aforesaid, on the
second Tuesday of December \. ID. 1857, then
that purpose said petitioners shall cause to
be published the substance OF said petition
and this order three weeks successfully in
the Middlebury Register, published at Mid
dlebury aforesaid, the last OF which publica-
tions to be ut least twenty days prior TO said
term of said court.
Dated at Middebury aforesaid, this second
day of November, A. ID. 1851. A sw
RUFUS WAINWRIGHT, Clerk.
STEWART & WLDs, Solrs for petitioners
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-11-11
J. II. BENEDICT, jc.
| 43 CIIAS. W. MATTHEWS. Nohi ,.


BE ii remembered, That ut II session of the
Probate Court holden ut Middlcbury, within
and tor the District of Addison, on the 26th
day OF October, \. ID. lsS1.
Present: Hon. Lyman +. Knapp, Judge.
Whereas, Il certain instrument in writing,
under seal, purporting to be the last will and
testament OF sarah H. Persons, late of Gran
vile, in said district, deceased, having been
this day presented to said Court OF Probate,
and duly filed in the Probate Office: There.
fore, it is ordered, that all persons interested
in the estate of said deceased, be notified to
appear before said court at the Probate office
in Middlebury, in said district, on the 18th
day OF November \. ID. lSS7, at 10 o'clock, II. IN.
by publication of this order three weeks sue
cessvcly previous thereto, in the Middlebury
Register, II newspaper printed AT Middlebury,
to show cause, if any they may have, why
said instrument in writing should not be
proved and allowed, as the last will and ties.
lament of the said deceased.
AZ LYMAN +. KNAPP, Judge.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-11-11
BEAST, BIRD AND FISH.

The skin of the catfish is now tanned into
leather in Germany 1t is tough, supple and
appears well.
Job Arden, of Rock Creek, ILL.,, thought
the cushion in his chair seemed remarkably
soft, and he soon found out that he had sat
down upon moccasn snake He killed the
snake, but not until it had bitten into his
buckskin brooches.
While fishing from a rowboat near Orange
city, Fla, Mr.. John Thursby tied his line to
the bow and laid down for a nap When he
awoke he was three miles up stream and a big
catfish was Juggling away at the line for dear
life The fish weighed over twenty pounds.
In Italy turkeys are always fattened with
walnuts Thirty days before the turkey is to
be killed one walnut is stuffed down his
throat. Each day he is given an additional
walnut, and on the twenty ninth day he has
twenty-nine welnuts He is then immensely
fat.
An able bodied fish, or rather eel, story is
told by Z. A. Pomroy of Jonesville, Mich
He says the eels get into the turbine wheel
at his mill in such great numbers that they
clog it up so that it stops. He repeatedly
took two bushels of fragments of eels from
the wheel, and finally decided to inclose it
with wire netting.
A small Scotch terrier dog in Little Rock
steals his way ON the street cars regularly
four times a day, to and from his master $
place of business Whether his master is
along or not he waits for the car at the cross
ing and hops on behind and alights with gen.
tlemanly ease when it arrives in front of his
masters store or residence.
Leroy Brown an elderly man, was playing
with pet kitten at his home near the rail
road track in Homer, n. Y. one day recently.
The kitten jumped from his arms and
ran across the track. Mr.. Brown started i'll
pursuit, and was struck by an express train
and hurled fifty feet upon an embankment.
His neck was broken and he died almost in
stantly.
Old Dick, rebel war horse, died in Sep
TENDER last, aged 33 years. He was bought
in Cincinnati and brought to Ashtabula
county, Ohio, by Lucius Thompson, and re-
manned with him for twenty-five years The
many scars he had ON him showed that he
was bullet proof; even lightning struck him
about year ago. but he survived it and died
of old age.
A rare fish, the opah or kingfish, has beer
caught off the Yorkshire coast. The speci
men measured four feet three inches il
length, and is said to be the most beautiful
in color and form of any fish that inhabit'
the North sea. The body is blue and blacl
bronze, studded with silver stars; the fins arr
vermilion, and the iris of the eyes white Tn,
fish has been preserved and added TO a collec
ton of natural history specimens at Grimsb
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-11-11
Ayers SarsapariIIa,

PREPARED BY
Or. ]. c. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all Druggists. Price q; six bottles, Is.
Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1887-11-11
NOTICE.-Estate of
" ElmOre IL. Miller.

the Hon. Probate Court tor the District OF Ad
Olson, Commissioners, to receive, examine
and adjust all claims and demands OF all per
sons against the estate of Elmore ~. Miller,
late OF Weybridge, in said District, deceased,
and all claims exhibited in offset thereto,
hereby give notice that we will meet Tor the
The both day of November and 10th day OF
April next, from l o'clock p. m. until 4
O'Clock, p. m, each of said days, ana that siN
lSs7, is the time limited by said Court tor
said creditors to present their claims to us
for examination and allowance.
Dated nj Weybridge, this 9Th day OF Novem-
Der, A. ID. 1857.
j. F. COTTON, lcon,s
453w THOS. SULLIVAN.